Winchester College possesses the statue of Montague Rendall below. Watch this short video to learn about the object. Beneath the video I give a description of the statue and a short biography of Montague Rendall.
This statue of Montague Rendall, a former headmaster of Winchester College, is from around 1938 and can be found in the Musā cupola or on the Winchester College Collections website, linked below. It was made Yelizaveta Cheremisinova (b. 1874). A letter by the subject records the artist's name as Vera Elizabeth Tcheremissinoff. It was given to the College by Rendall in 1939.
Montague Rendall, born on 6 May 1862, is most notable for his headmastership of Winchester College, where he championed the arts. Rendall's own education occured at Elstree, Harrow and finally Trinity College, Cambridge. Almost immediately after leaving university, he joined the teaching staff of Winchester College. His natural sympathy for boys, high moral standards, and innovative lectures, particularly on Italian art, made him the obvious choice to succeed Hubert Burge as Headmaster in 1911.
He was disorganised and a poor administrator, reforming very little at the helm of the college. However, he led Winchester admirably through the First World War and conceived War Cloister, the largest private war memorial in Europe. He commissioned many works of art, mostly by his art master, R.M.Y. Gleadowe, a selection of which you can see in the gallery below.
Monty Rendall & the BBC: godtres.wixsite.com/cornucopia/post/monty-rendall-the-bbc
Winchester College Collections: winchestercollections.co.uk/collection/yelizaveta-cheremisinova-b-1874
Monty Rendall: A Newly Discovered Autobiographical Fragment: joom.ag/d07C/p10
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